[2023] Eyes Dazzle As They Search for The Truth
[2023] Ashes and Snow
September 2026
Book Review - Caleb Stein, Down by the Hudson, C4 Journal
June 19 – June 20, 2026
Portfolio Review, Belfast Photo Festival
June 4, 2026
Gabble Magazine: Issue 2, Filet, London
May, 2026
Photobook, Luhz Press, Text by David Campany
May 1, 2026
Talk, Photography X Archives, University of Portsmouth
February 10 – May 25, 2026
Community, Exhibition, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
In 2024, Yousefi received the Royal Photographic Society Award for Achievement in the Art of Photography in recognition of a notable personal contribution to the field. He was also selected as a 2024 Foam Talent winner. His project Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth was shortlisted for the 2022 Carte Blanche Awards at Paris Photo and later shown at the 2023 Unseen Art Fair in Amsterdam. He has delivered guest lectures at Université du Québec, the University of Neyshabour, and the University of Semnan. His work has been presented internationally, including Community at Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2026), and Documents at Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (2025), as well as exhibitions and festivals such as the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt (2025), Belfast Photo Festival (2024), Athens Photo Festival (2024), Kranj Photo Festival (2024), Circulation(s) at Centquatre Paris, and Peckham 24 (2024). His photobook Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth, with a text by David Campany, is forthcoming with Luhz Press (2026).
Alongside his artistic practice, Yousefi works across curating and writing as connected forms of inquiry. He is Assistant Curator and Editor of Photography+ at Photoworks UK, where he contributes to the development of exhibitions, commissions, and public programmes across photography and lens-based media. His curatorial work engages questions of image circulation, archival politics, and the conditions through which meaning is produced in exhibition contexts. Recent curatorial projects include Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5 (Drawing Room, London, 2026), What Did You Want to See? by Mahtab Hussain (IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 2025), Stone Circles: Community and Heritage (Stonehenge, English Heritage, 2025), Boomsatsuma (Photo|Frome, Silk Mill Gallery, Bristol, 2025), and Poison Date, Kill Algorithms by Marcel Top (Post Creatives, Brighton, 2025).
To commission a project or purchase a print, please get in touch with me via email: aminyousephi@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2022 MA in Photography, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
2019 BA in Photography, Art University of Isfahan, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Defensive Readiness: Revised Edition, Fonderia 20.9, Verona, Italy
2025 Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth, Vilnius Photography Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023 Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth, On The Go Platform, Fotografisk Center, Denmark
2019 Life, Death, And Other Similar Things, Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran
2018 Untitled Photographs, Negaresh Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Community, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2025 Documents, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2025 Sign Up by Hot Potato, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2024 Hellerau Photography Award, Dresden, Germany
2024 Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
2024 Back To The Future, Peckham 24, London
2024 Kranj Photo Festival, Kranj, Slovenia
2024 Restart, Prospektas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2024 Performing Histories / Histories Re-Imagined, Impression Gallery, Bradford, UK
2024 Circulation(s), Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France
2024 Les Boutographies, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France
2024 Foam Talent, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Past & Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2022 Consider This, Ambika P3, London, United Kingdom
2022 Work in Progress, Gallery West, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
2022 Where We Meet: Connection, Deptford Does Art, London, United Kingdom
2021 Immediate and Remote, Aran Projects, Tehran, Iran
2021 HerMAP Art Project, Bozar Center of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2021 The Censored, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 Ag Talent 2019, 0/1 Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2019 Determinism Vol.2, Taropod Gallery, Shiraz, Iran
2019 Determinism Vol.1, Negaresh Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2018 An Artistic Conscience in an Ill Body, Negaresh Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2018 The Search, Naqsh Khaneh Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2017 Four Seasons, Sayan Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2016 Isfahan University of Art, Isfahan, Iran
2016 Iranology Foundation Exhibition, Iranology Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015 University of Meshkin Shahr, Meshkin Shahr, Iran
PHOTOBOOK
2026 Eyes Dazzle As They Search for The Truth, Text by David Campany, Luhz Press
ART AND PHOTOBOOK FAIRS
2024 MIA Photo Fair, Ag Galerie, Curated by Roï Sade, Milan, Italy
2023 Unseen Art Fair, Ag Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AWARDS AND HONORS
2024 Award for Achievement in the Art of Photography, Royal Photography Society, London
2024 Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2024 Hellerau Photography Award, Dresden, Germany
2024 Athens Photo Festvial, Athens, Greece
2024 Kranj Photo Festival, Kranj, Slovenia
2023 Foam Talent, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 PhotoFrome Awards, Frome, United Kingdom
2023 Guest Room: David Campany, Der Greif, Munich, Germany
2022 Carte Blanche Awards, Paris Photo, Paris, France
2021 Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019 Ag Talent, Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran
2018 Firoozeh Festival, Tabriz, Iran
2016 Photography Festival of Society and Religion, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Iranology Foundation Festival, Tehran, Iran
2015 The Bucovina Photo Festival, Bucovina, Romania
2014 National Tourism Festival, Tehran, Iran
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2026 Jerwood/Photoworks Award 5, Drawing Room, London UK
2025 Poison Date, Kill Algorithms, Marcel Top, Brighron, UK
2025 Boomsatsuma, PhotoFrome Silk Mill Gallery, Bristol, UK
2025 What Did You Want to See?, Mahtab Hussain, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2025 Stone Circles, Community and Heritage, Stonehenge Centre, Stonehenge, UK
2022 The Black Door, Chris Cornish, Art Practice, London
2022 Daniel Eatock, Art Practice, London
2022 London Design Week, Patricia Qua, Art Practice, London
2021 Failed Rescue, Sina Piryae, Aknoon Art Gallery
TALKS
2026 “Photography X Archives,” University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth
2026 “The People’s Pictures”, in conversation with Laura Halvin and Carolina Semprucci, University of Westminster
2026 “Power and Vulnerability,” in conversation with Diane Smyth, Leipzig Photobook Festival, Germany
2026 “Visual Authority,” in conversation with Claudia Gehre, Leipzig Photobook Festival, Germany
2026 “Photography and Archive” University of Neyshabour, Neyshabour, Iran
2025 “Poison Date, Kill Algorithms,” Marcel Top in conversation with Amin Yousefi, POST Creative, Brighton
2025 “Reversed Surveillance,” Marcel Top in conversation with Amin Yousefi, Reference Point, London
2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
2025 “Writing About Your Work” in Conversation with Diane Smyth, Photographers’ Gallery , London
2025 “Un-anticipated Collaboration“, University of Quebec in Montreal
2024 “Limits and Possibilities of Lens Based Art”, in Conversation with Luka Savić, Kranj Foto Fest, Slovenia
2024 "David Campany in conversation with Odette England and Amin Yousefi," Peckham 24, London
2024 "On Photobooks," Dastras Photobook Platform, Choom Gallery, Anzali, Iran
2024 "Citizens and Photography, In conversation with David Campany," Photographer's Gallery, London
2023 "The Photo and The Book; A Symbiotic Relationship," University of Neyshabur
2019 “Homayoun Sirizi in Conversation with Amin Yousefi and Ali Afshari”, Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran
2018 "Beyond a Flow; Dusseldorf School of Photography," Art University of Isfahan
2017 "Contemporary Iranian Photography," Isfahan Photo Club
2017 "History of Iranian Photography," Art University of Isfahan
2016 "Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency," Art University of Isfahan
RESIDENCIES
2025 Fonderia 20.9, Verona, Italy
2023 Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Kalbe, Germany
TEACHING
2025 Portfolio Reviewer, Photoworks Portfolio Surgeries
2025 Portfolio Reviewer, Belfast Photo Festival
2025 Portfolio Reviewer, Manchester Metropolitan University
2025 Visiting Lecturer, Paper Drop Lab , Athens, Greece
2025 Visiting Lecturer, CALAT, London, United Kingdom
2024 Visiting Lecturer, University of Tehran, Iran
2024 Visiting Lecturer, Photofusion, London, United Kingdom
2022 Visiting Lecturer, University of Neyshabur
2021 Visiting Lecturer, University of Semnan
JURY
2025 Photoworks Emerging Talent, United Kingdom
2025 PhotoFrome Student Awards, United Kingdom
WRITINGS
2026 “Biased Algorithms, Resilient Images,” Chesmak Magazine
2025 “The People’s Pictures” Photography+ Issue 29, Photoworks
2025 “No Country for Old Man”, Photoworks Annual
2025 “Ghost by Andy Mattern,” Photography+
2025 “Sakir Khader,” Foam Magazine
2025 “Fayez’s Aporia” Exhibiton Text, Ab-Anbar Gallery
2024 “The Chroma of Chaos – Batniji’s Digital Dialect“, Photomonitor
2023 "What It Means to Make Photographs as a Young Artist in Iran," Aperture Magazine
2023 "It Won't Matter to Us Since You Won't Use Our Film," Der Greif Magazine
2022 “I know this Hair, as White as Snow, is not that of an Aged Man” Essay
2022 “Image of Imagination: Photographing Through History“ Essay
2016 "Intimate Life: Photography as Contemporary Art," Sarv Journal, Art University of Isfahan
COMMISSIONS
2022 "In Iran, Death Has a Face," Halaeh Anvari, Aperture Magazine
2022 "Eyes Dazzle as They Search for The Truth" Hapax Magazine, Issue 3
2021 “Ruderal Acts”, HerMAP Art Project, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel, Belgium
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2026 Ddorf-aktuell
2026 NOWNESS
2025 Fonderia 20.9
2025 Royal Photographic Society Journal
2024 1000Words
2024 Photomonitor
2024 Revue21
2024 TV5 Monde
2024 ZoomUp
2024 MUSÉE
2024 Foam Magazine Issue 65
2024 Foam Museum
2024 Black Camera Italy
2024 PHROOM
2022 Haleh Anvari
2022 University of Westminster
2022 University of Westminster
2022 Hapax Magazine, Issue 3
2022 Aperture Magazine
2022 Source Magazine
2021 PHMuseum
2020 Paper Journal
2020 LetKiss Magazine
2019 Tajrobeh Magazine